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jail cell thegrio.com
October 8, 2018
Recent incidents involving inmate deaths are causing the judge to question whether or not it is wise to place convicts…
Burger King
May 24, 2018
An African-American man in Boston who was arrested at a Burger King after they assumed he was paying for food…
jail cell thegrio.com
May 23, 2018
In their Miranda rights, everyone has the right to remain silent, but if inmates decide not to use it and…
April 3, 2018
Rapper Meek Mill will remain in jail for now because the judge in the case turned down his bid for release.
Terrill Thomas theGrio.com
February 13, 2018
Terrill Thomas, 38, spent a week without water inside his cell at Milwaukee County jail.
May 15, 2017
More than a dozen Black Lives Matter-affiliated groups participated in Mama's Bail Out Day for Mother's Day to bail mothers…
March 16, 2017
A Department of Corrections veteran captain Shantay Dash at Rikers Island has resigned after video surfaced of her apparently kissing…
September 21, 2016
Authorities have ruled the death of Terrill Thomas, who died of “profound dehydration” in a Milwaukee County Jail cell, to…
August 26, 2016
An Arkansas cancer survivor is getting support to fight the courts after being jailed over bounced checks and unpaid debt. The
August 13, 2016
A Montgomery County investigation is underway into a possible prostitution ring after a teenage girl told authorities that she had been
August 6, 2016
The inmate who assaulted Dylann Roof at the Charleston County Detention Center is now out on bond. Bond had been
August 5, 2016
A Georgia father of twin 16-month-old girls has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after the girls died from heat-related causes. WAFB
July 30, 2016
Jelani Maraj, brother to Nicki Minaj, has been accused of repeatedly raping a 12-year-old, and now, the prosecution says, the
July 24, 2016
An attorney was sentenced to five days in jail after she refused to remove a Black Lives Matter pin in
April 14, 2016
A Texas man who couldn’t afford to pay his bond was beaten to death in his holding cell by two
March 10, 2016
Jeremy Meeks, the "prison bae" whose mugshot went viral and led to all sorts of modeling offers, has been released…
January 14, 2016
The day he got married, Tyrone Lamonte Allen was no ordinary groom as he walked into the courthouse with his hands
December 22, 2015
It looks like Apollo Nida is more than a little frustrated that Peter Thomas hasn't visited him in jail...
December 18, 2015
Meek Mill is now facing a possible jail sentence after a judge found him guilty of violating his probation...